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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can't teachers get paid like Google Software Engineer?[/quote]

are they going to work the hours of google software engineers? are they going to go through the rigid hiring processes and get the education of google software engineers?[/quote]

I’m fairly confident I work similar hours. I worked 65 last week and will likely work more this week since papers just came in. I definitely have the education (2 advanced degrees).

Here’s the problem with your 3rd point: we can’t fill positions NOW. Our standards for entering this profession are pretty low, and we still can’t find people who want to teach. I suppose we can make an argument that raising standards will attract people because they’ll see teaching as a prestigious career. What comes first, though? How do we raise the bar for entering the profession without first making it more appealing? [/quote]

I am going to side eye your hours a week 52 weeks a year. [/quote]

Side eyeball you want. The only time I work less than 55 hours a week (minimum) is during the summer. I am between contracts for 7 weeks, not the 3 months people usually like to attribute to teacher summers. I may work 10-20 (unpaid) hours each week, just updating material and attending trainings. This is pretty standard for many in the profession. [/quote]

I agree about the time between when the contract ends and the new one begins. It’s about 7-8 weeks (not a complaint for those of you who might read it as such). I do wonder why you are putting on 10-20 hours a week when off contract in the summer. Where do you teach that you are required to attend trading during that time? DH and I are both teachers and we don’t put in any hours, or we work only a handful over the summer.[/quote]

I’m the PP. I use the summer to get work done so I can free up time during the school year. My courses don’t come with a county-written curriculum, so I revise or write major units over the summer. I also write 40-50 college recommendations over the summer so they aren’t competing with my teaching in the fall. (At our school, requests are made in May, which works well since it gives me the summer to write.) I also do all my recertification and certificate trainings over the summer.

All of this could be done during the year, but this frees time and helps me avoid more backlogs of work. This is worth giving up a portion of my summer.[/quote]

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